You have been beyond helpful. Thank you so much!

Sounds like a guide to me ☺️

The registry is one of the reasons I was thinking I would need separate prefixes that I can copy. But, I also understand that games that actually use the registry are few and far between. If I actually come across one that needs registry edits I can just pack that differently.

Does it install winetricks and wine? Or is it up to you to install that? I believe the steam comes with it pre-installed though, so it''s probably not necessary.

What about graphics drivers? What if the desktop has an Nvidia GPU and the steam deck is AMD. Would that even matter?

Very informative thanks! Do you have a specific article that you'd suggest on bottles? Or does it have a decent wiki?

Wow. You wrote a guide on it. I'll try to find time to read it tonight! I do have a question, what if a game makes use of the windows registry? Would that change the prefix?

I have three questions if you have the time. Can you make it go to desktop mode by default, not big picture mode? What DE does it come with, Plasma? Does it come with Lutris or whatever? If I have an .exe installer for an old game, does it come pre-installed with tools to help create the proton wine-prefixes and everything? I imagine the last one would allow Flatpak to be used.

Makes sense. I wouldn't want to have all of my games in one wine prefix. I would like to keep them separate like steam/proton does. From looking it up, it seems the issue is that there is a lot of duplicate data that would need to be deduplicated. Steam supposedly does symlinks to solve this. But, if the symlinks points to /home/user/ as the base then that would break on /home/deck.

If you have any experience with Lutris/bottles. Do they do separate wine prefixes? If so, how do they handle it?

I wonder if it would then be easy to backup the drm-free games to copy elsewhere..?

Thanks for your help!

Ah. Different builds for different versions. Makes sense

Cool, thank you! A lot of games on ProtonDB list specific versions of proton that work best for different games. That's why I asked. But, I could just add a file in the root of the prefix with the version that worked (for troubleshooting purposes).

Do you have any preference for Lutris, bottles, vanilla proton?

Not at all what I was asking. But, okay.

Home Automation. It can be as simple as buying a hub and some devices. But, I went the self-hosted route using Home Assistant to give me more control of what it can do.

I have some automations that turn on a certain set of lights on when the sun sets and off when it rises. It's pretty simple, but saves electricity because I used to leave my front porch light on 24/7.

I just set up an automation last night that sends me a discord notification when the laundry machine finishes and the same for the dryer. I can't hear the beeping because I am always too far from the laundry room. This one has me so excited!

I've seen people automate gardens which seems really neat. Really, your only limit is your imagination. I also just really like having an app on my phone to toggle power to random lights and fans around my house. It helps me get out of bed because I can turn the fan off when I'm cold in bed.

If only they supported Linux better, or really like at all... I know you can grab the files and install without DRM. But, the whole lack of a client makes it a nuisance to use. I used to buy everything on GOG when possible. Since I got a Steam Deck that's changed. I shouldn't have to use Heroic Launcher IMO..

Steaming services don't give it to you for free with the only ads being for the premium version of their service that you don't really need..

Lmao, it's a Rick roll on archive.org!

Hitler probably didn't kill many/any of the Jews himself either..

Is this an old meme? They revamped their UI and I think it's (Steam) very intuitive now. I do remember when they had like 10 different styles of drop-down box on the desktop app. But, I don't see that now.

Imagine saying all that and not linking it 😏

I got you fam. https://store.steampowered.com/app/846030/V_Rings_of_Saturn/

I think this went over my head..?

I don't understand a single example you gave. I always call it Linux. But, what?

Then you weren't in the r/self-hosting or r/piracy communities. It comes from the fact that it supports most codecs. So when you want to watch almost any movie on Plex, the server won't have to transcode.

Gitea is a fork of gogs. Forgejo is a forge of Gitea too. I would suggest/use Forgejo.

Dns is what translates urls (google.com, lemmy.world, etc) into ip addresses (207.94.56.21) which your computer can actually understand. Dns can be used to track you but a good dns can also very slightly speed up your Internet because it gets you the address to websites a bit faster. I use adguard and have Cloudflare DNS upstream from that

You don't have to enter desktop mode to launch them. You have to enter desktop mode to install them and add them as a non-steam game to your steam library so that they'll show up in handheld mode.

I like this as a possible explanation. In my experience however, it's been older people who do this. The generation that most likely wouldn't be watching these shows

True. Linux client is a must for me. Their Windows launcher is kinda crap too. It has so much focus on trying to get all your games in one launcher but it's not great as a launcher for any platform..

Fallout 3. I never made it out of the vault on my first play. It's long and slow. I played at a friend's house who was past that point and realized I needed to try again. I'll never regret giving it another try!

Torx screws 4 lyfe

Source for this person being transphobic? I'm not saying you're wrong, I just don't know where this is coming from..

Iirc signal has something you can host for the communications of strangers.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking..

Because they should be able to make a launcher that works. The Windows GOG launcher (GOG Galaxy) is a joke. They want to make one launcher to rule them all but it struggles with almost every one. I have a Windows computer for games that require it (Valorant mostly for me) and even on PC I use Heroic. I don't want crazy features. I just want an officially supported GOG client that works well on Linux and Windows.

You can feel however which way you want. But, comparing it to paid services isn't fair..

Woah, I can't wait to never afford that!

This looks pretty cool. I haven't used OpenWRT in years. Does it support mesh or adding another access point somehow?

Either way, I'm happy with my current OPNSense/unifi setup.

I think it's a lot more intimidating than it is actually hard. You could get a Raspberry Pi, Alternative, or a Home Assistant Yellow. Then there guides that can get you going in minutes. It's actually a pretty good time with the latest update introducing better onboarding.

I am not trying to convince you. But, I don't want to see anyone scared out either.

https://www.bobble.tech/free-stuff/used-thinkpad-buyers-guide

2.0 seems to be closing the gap towards Discord more. Which I like.